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Posted on 11/18/2023 6:20:26 PM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
From US Defense News! Sounds official, huh?
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Putin condemns Gaza bombing. Boy, he has one he$$ of a nerve after all the bombing he has done of Ukraine residential cities, rail stations, schools, hospitals, etc. How many civilians has he killed now in Ukraine, in addition to how many children he has kidnapped and taken to Russia?
I agree. Too many of the Putinistas are in denial that their Fuhrer Putler has led Ruzzia into ruin. If Ruzzia can’t defeat Ukraine then what happens if they go up against a REAL enemy? Like China?
VIDEO
Russian Сalls for Genocide Against Ukrainians
UATV English
404K subscribers
11-18-2023 5:15 P.m.
3:32 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XjvOPwp5vM
Discover the harrowing reality of Ukrainian war prisoners: the UN reports that 90% of them faced torture in Russian captivity. This extends beyond individuals to encompass mass murders, violence against women and children, and the destruction of entire communities, signaling what experts claim is a genocide against the Ukrainian people. Even textbooks and Kremlin narratives deny Ukraine’s historical identity.
Amidst this, Ukraine, with international support, collects evidence of this genocidal policy. However, proving such crimes remains immensely challenging, with only two convictions for genocide in international law. Explore the complexities and evidence in this ongoing struggle for justice in our in-depth news story on Russia’s genocidal policies towards Ukraine.
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HELPFUL HINT REGARDING SPAM:
“A quarter (24.77%) of all spam emails sent in 2021 originated from Russia, with more than half (56%) of all emails being spam messages.
That’s according to Kaspersky’s latest Annual Spam and Phishing Report, which analysed close to 150 million malicious email attachments blocked by the cyber security provider’s antivirus over the course of last year.”
“Kaspersky’s findings come weeks after Microsoft issued a warning about hackers targeting Microsoft 365 users with a fake app capable of stealing OAuth authentication tokens, providing them full access to the victim’s email, calendar, and contacts.”
https://www.itpro.com/security/phishing/362226/quarter-of-2021s-spam-emails-were-sent-from-russia
“The disparity’s in capacity are laughably obvious,”
And yet, Ukraine has recovered Snake Island, chased much of the Russian warships from Sevastapol, badly damaged or destroyed new Russian military ships in Kersh shipyard, and has made it possible for commercial ships to renew the export of Ukraine grains, iron ore, etc. Not bad for a country with no submarines or much navy.
Then we have reports of devastating attacks on sleeping Russians in their quarters by Ukraine soldiers who have night vision goggles and other small equipment which the Russain or Chechnian soldiers completely lack. Then they use cheap machine guns rather that expensive rockets to mow them down in their beds. Remember what termites do to buildings, and microbes do to the human body. When it comes to final results, Ukraine’s effectiveness with modest cost commercial drones, and other creative fighting are a significant factor not mentioned in your big power research parameters. Then think of the poor Russian soldiers told to ask their women for tampons to plug the bleeding bullet wounds, and forced to buy much of their own military clothes.
Then there is the human factor. Ukraines fighters are motivated. Russian fighters mostly just want to go home and are bitching to their families they are not being rotated or given owed R & R. This SUNDAY there is supposed to be widespread demonstrations by Russian families on behalf of their miserable conscript soldiers. Will be interesting to see how that develops. Small or large crowds? Mild or vicious official responses, etc.?
VIDEO
RUSSIA HAS SUFFERED ITS WORST ARMORED VEHICLE LOSSES SINCE THE WAR BEGAN || 2023
Warthog Defense
631K subscribers
11-18-2023 7:15 p.m.
8:40 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5zgUIfhHQk
ARTICLE
Ukraine’s defence forces have recently received more than 2,000 Ukrainian-made drones.
Ukrainska Pravda
KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO
Saturday, 18 November 2023, 17:59
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2023/11/18/7429364/
SOURCE:
Mykhailo Fedorov, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Digital Transformation, on Telegram
українські безпілотники, фото з Telegram Федорова
QUOTE:
“The state has given defence forces’ procurement agencies more than 2,000 Ukrainian-made drones.
The General Staff will distribute the drones to soldiers fighting on the hottest fronts.
This consignment contains only Ukrainian-made drones, including multi-rotor and fixed-wing reconnaissance drones, and kamikaze and multi-use attack drones. The drones will help strike Russian positions and equipment. All these UAVs were procured as part of the state procurement initiative.”
DETAILS:
Fedorov also said that last week alone, Ukrainian drones struck 39 Russian tanks, 57 cannons, 34 armoured vehicles, and 307 strongholds.
The Ukraine is losing, despite having night vision goggles. THey keep throwing conscripts into the meat grinder and eventually, they will run out of soldiers to waste in their futile efforts. The Ukraine actually KNOWS it’s losing, but it’s trying to prop up the optics, get more money etc. Yes - and the Ukraine has night vision goggles and support from NATO, which is now being withdrawn.
VIDEO
Targeting Crimea is the key to ending the war with Russia | Lieutenant General Ben Hodges
Times Radio
616K subscribers
11-18-2023
29:45 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_nadE3EuvI&t=167s
INTERVIEW VIDEO
SЕSТRА 0ТЖАЛА BMW И ЕЩЕ Р0ДNЯ КИНULА, В ПРЯМОМ SМЫSЛЕ SL0VА / @VolodymyrZolkin
Volumyrzolkin
11-18-2023 11:00 p.m. EST
1:18:44 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxuY66Sg8Ns
📌 Choose your life - - https://t.me/hochu_zhyt
(_The only center for accepting applications for surrender in captivity “I want to live”_)
Coordination headquarters for the treatment of prisoners of war https://koordshtab.gov.ua/%d0%ba%d0%b...
0:00 Beginning behind the scenes
5:10 New project
8:00 How was the ticket given?
10:40 In detail
22:25 Slojpye moments
32:25 About a miracle
44:45 Do you know who I see in front of me?
50:18 Funny))
52:45 Calling mom
58:55 Appeal to the mother
1:04:10 My sister is calling, but can I get my brother on the phone?
1:10:00 Where is his homeland?
1:13:38 Overs
0: 00 starting with the staff
5: 10 new project
8: 00 How did you get a ticket?
10: 40 in detail
22: 25 layered moments
32: 25 O miracle
44: 45 Do you know who I am?
50: 18 amusing))
52: 45 calling mom
58: 55 mother-in-law
1: 04: 10 sister rings, and brother can go to the phone?
1: 10: 00 Where is the family?
1: 13: 38 for frame
VIDEO
Azov Fighters about Life in Russian Prison & Not Giving Up. Discuss the Hottest Topics of War
UNITED24
776K subscribers
11-18-2023 1:30 p.m. EST
17:50 Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcfB_EmUzs8
Illia Samoilenko is a staff officer of Azov. Serhii Rotchuk is a combat medic and Azov fighter since 2015. Both men were fighting during the defence of Mariupol for 86 days, and were under siege at Azovstal steel works until the very end on May 19th 2022. Due to dwindling supplies and to save the lives of the many wounded, they surrended. More than 2000 were taken into Russian captivity. After their release, they wasted no time and returned to the frontline: for Azov, and for Ukraine. In this interview, we speak to both men about their time in captivity, about the 650 Azov fighters who remain in Russian prisons, about the Russian Red Cross, and how to stay motivated in even the darkest hours.
With uncensored opposing views courtesy of the Russian Ministry of Propaganda.
In April 1967, almost a year before Tet, Westmorland assured a friendly audience that triumph in Vietnam was close at hand.
Westmorland added then, "What success the Viet Cong have achieved is not military but 'a clever contribution of psychological and political warfare both here and abroad.' "
In Westmoreland's defense, according to many, including US Gen. Petraeus, the US never lost a major battle in Vietnam.
But the war ended disgracefully for the same reason as Afghanistan, because Democrats withdrew support and allowed North Vietnamese to overrun our allies in the South.
Pure, unfiltered Ukraine Propaganda. Nothing more.
In recent weeks Russians have lost around 1,000 soldiers per day in their "Meat Wave" assaults on Ukrainian lines around Avdiivka.
Ukrainians have slowly given way, and Avdiivka could eventually become a second Bakhmut.
But that is not a certainty yet, and in the meantime, Ukrainians make small gains near Robotne and Kherson, along with doing major damage behind Russian lines in both Crimea and the Donbas.
Caca is what the ground is quickly becoming in Ukraine's fall rains.
Are you related to Vlad the Invader?
So now you are trying to get sympathy? Just because you won't accept the truth about your lost cause in the Ukraine, doesn't mean you'll get any sympathy from me.
Vlad the Invader's "special military operations" against Ukraine have indeed been "a close call", but nobody has ever claimed Ukrainians could match Russian manpower.
It has always been a case of three Russians or more to one Ukrainian.
What's made it "a close call" is Russia's willingness to sacrifice thousands of their own soldiers in suicidal "Meat Wave" assaults for the gain of just a few yards.
In such "Meat Wave" assaults, Russian losses are typically three or more to one Ukrainian.
ransomnote: "The Global power website ranks Russia and the Ukraine among all militarized nations overall, and on a piecemeal basis.
It counts able bodied (able to serve in military) and troop levels etc."
I don't think your numbers are any more reliable than these or these.
Estimates of Russian troops in or around Ukraine range up to about 400,000.
Russian losses since February 2022 have averaged roughly 500 per day and lately are peaking at over 1,000 per day.
Ukrainian losses, especially when fighting on the defense, are less than one third of those numbers.
Finally, by all accounts I've seen, Ukrainian forces are growing more exhausted, but still are highly motivated and treated reasonably well.
By stark contrast, Russia's forces are portrayed as demoralized, poorly supplied and sometimes rebellious, especially when ordered into suicidal "Meat Wave" assaults on Ukrainian positions.
The real problem here is that while Western countries have supplied Ukraine with enough weapons, ammo, etc., to keep fighting, they (we) have not sent enough to actually win the war.
That is 100% typical of our own Democrats and has lead to debacles in the past like Vietnam and Afghanistan.
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